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Thursday, 22 April 2010

[Tip] Use GMail to sign up to Web Apps multiple times with same email account

I needed to sign up to Twitter for a website I helped develop. I have already set up multiple twitter accounts and used email addresses that I regularly use.

I was looking for a way of using the same email for multiple twitter accounts and found a link which explained that google email considers xxx@gmail.com and xxx@googlemail.com as the same address.

Straight away that gives you a two for one deal on your google email. It doesn't end there. Google email addresses also ignore dots (.) when emails are sent to them. So xx.x@gmail.com is considered the same as xxx@gmail.com. So all variations will end up in the same google mailbox

There are many applications for this feature including spam control however for me it makes it a lot simpler when signing up for web applications like twitter where your email address has to be unique for each account.